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Preventing Catastrophe(s)

Our season is one of the long tail of e-janitorial services left undone and fostering into being a healthy mature criminal ecosystem designed to democratize crime to the point that the average casual user can run their own turn-key e-crime empire.

The goal of getting a six sigma style defect performance out of mere humans who like to click links in email was never practical. What it did accomplish was to sell a lot of expensive training, put some more checkboxes into third party and supply chain compliance lists, and increased relevance in pentests. The very term ‘pentest’ has become the complete summation of all technology quality programs and has become almost meaningless without context.

Prevent dangerous liability from ever existing by avoiding known issues

Have a plan for reacting to crime

DDoS and encryption ransom and extortion by organized crime is presently a huge problem and needs to be included in an organizations planned incident response playbooks.

Data driven leadership

No one gets promoted for sweeping up or makes a billion from running a tight ship. People get rich by developing (and subverting) platforms, birthing code poet kittens, and delivering x100 ROI to capital exits, but developers can’t do it by themselves alone.

Assuming they don’t get washed up on the rocks of all their unmitigated tech debt and accepted business risks, the can might be kicked until a payday can be realized.